Life and Death

1. “If a man know not life with he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen ?.” [SAMUEL BUTLER (d.1902), “Death”., Note Books (1912)]



2. “What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.” [ALBERT CAMUS,”An Absurb Reasoning” The Myth of Sisyphus(1912)]



3. “Grive not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end .” [HAFIZ,GHAZALS FROM THE Divan (14thC.)]



4. “It matters of how man dies but how hi lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it last so short time.” [SAMUEL JOHNSON,Oct.26, 1769]



5. “The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.” [EPICURUS, Letters, Principle Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings.]



6. “Death is what men want when the anguish living is more than can bear.” [EURIPIDES,Hecuba (c.425 B.C.)]



7. “Our final ex perience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darknesses.” [E.M. FORSTER, “People” , Sspect of the Novel (1927)]



8. “The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life” [WILLIAM HAZLITT, “ On the fear of Death,” Table Talk (1821 -22)]



9. “Death’s stamp gives value to the coin of live; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.” [RABINDRANATH TAGORE, Stray Birds , (1961)]



10. “Oh death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.” [Mark Twain, Notebook (1935)]



11. “Science says:” We must live,” and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says : “ We must die,” and seeks how to make us die well.” [ MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO,”Arbitrary Reflections, “ Essays and Soliloquies.” (1924)]



12. “Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.” [MONTAIGNE, “That is to study philosophy is to learn to die,” Essays (1580 - 88)]